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"Francis Ford Coppola, J.J. Abrams and Ricky Gervais will participate in the &amp;quot;Tribeca Talks&amp;quot; series of the 2016 Tribeca Film Festival, running April 13th to 24th in New York City. Alfonso Cuar&amp;#xF3;n, Jodie Foster, Patti Smith, Joss Whedon, Olivia Wilde, Samantha Bee and Baz Luhrmann will also appear at the 15th annual fest, along with many other filmmakers, artists and executives.\r\n\r\n&amp;quot;Tribeca Talks: Directors Series&amp;quot; will feature Foster with Julie Taymor, Whedon in conversation with Mark Ruffalo, Abrams with Chris Rock, Luhrmann with Nelson George and Cuar&amp;#xF3;n with an as-yet-unannounced moderator. The new &amp;quot;Storytellers&amp;quot; installment, which features artists who &amp;quot;work across mediums to tell their stories,&amp;quot; will include Coppola, Smith, Tom Hanks with&amp;#xA0;Last Week Tonight&amp;#xA0;host John Oliver, Idina Menzel and Tina Fey.&amp;#xA0;\r\nThe &amp;quot;After the Movie&amp;quot; series &amp;#x2013; which allows audiences to converse with filmmakers and actors after screenings of their films &amp;#x2013;&amp;#xA0;will include the world premiere of satirical comedy Special Correspondents, followed by a discussion with writer-director Ricky Gervais, actor Eric Bana and other cast members. The program will also include a screening of Contemporary Color, a documentary about David Byrne&amp;apos;s live performance project pairing musicians with color guard teams; Byrne will lead a conversation with directors Bill and Turner Ross.&amp;#xA0;\r\nAnother new 2016 entry is the &amp;quot;Daring Women Summit,&amp;quot; featuring conversations with influential women from the realm of arts and technology. Wilde,&amp;#xA0;Full Frontal&amp;apos;s Samantha Bee, Rosie Perez, Google Entertainment Industry Educator in Chief Julie Ann Crommett, fashion designer Donna Karan and Fresh Off the Boat show runner Nahnatchka Khan will appear, among others."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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